With a new home comes a new phase. You get a welcomed change of things and the opportunity for new beginnings. If you are designing your own home, it’s not just the cherry on the cake. It’s another cake by…
Tiny House Living
7 Tips for Potential Tiny House Dwellers
BY: TIMOTHY ELLIS The Tiny House Movement has been gaining momentum recently. Some tiny home dwellers have even chosen to live completely off the grid. Others are enjoying all the amenities of being plugged in. And some have taken their tiny…
Think Big: How To Design A Bedroom for A Tiny House
BY: RACHEL MINAHAN A tiny house means limited space. It also means that designing can be a bit harder than it would with a big house. However, having a small house can also be a blessing in disguise sometimes. While…
Floor plans for your tiny house on wheels (photos)
Perhaps one of the most appealing aspects of the tiny house movement is mobility. Many tiny homes can be built on a trailer, which allows for easy transportation from one place to another. A tiny house on wheels allows those…
This tiny house B&B encourages you to explore the traditional land of the Esk’etemc people
BY: DUSTIN BATTY One of the most inspiring aspects of the tiny house movement is the sense of community and helpfulness that it promotes. Tiny house builders and residents are often willing to provide advice for others who want to…
Tiny Houses: 10 inspiring tiny homes (photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The tiny house movement is characterized by the desire to live with fewer material items and less space, in order to make room for what really matters – friends and family, experiences, good health – and have…
Cargo container homes: 12 inspiring small living quotes
Small living may seem like a recent trend, but hundreds of great minds across history have long mused on the possibility of small living – be it in a tiny house, a container home, or even a hobbit-hole. Here are…
10 amazing tiny homes from around the world (photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER 1. The Hobbit House Location: Wales, UK The hobbit house was built by Simon and Jasmine Dale for under $5,000 US. Carved into a hillside, the home was made using natural materials such as wood, mud and grass.…
Tiny house designs: Life Hacks
Perhaps one of the most important – and the most fun – parts of building your own tiny house is designing the interior. Not only is this where you get a chance to express and showcase your own personal style,…
Container houses: Why you should build one ASAP
Growing populations, growing real estate cost, growing cities. Everything in our life seems to be growing bigger, denser, gaudier, and glitzier. Between mile-high condominiums, mile-long highways, and increasingly wasteful living spaces, it’s no surprise that many people are embarking on…
Inspiring tiny cabins that will make you want to live in the woods
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In a world filled with constant noise, sometimes it’s hard to take a moment to ourselves to stop and think. Whether we’re on a packed subway during our morning commute, hunched over our laptop keyboard while the…
Container house vs. traditional tiny home
BY: PHILIPPE DE JOCAS In an age where housing prices are climbing faster than a monkey on PCP – forcing millennials and young families to either live at home with their parents or room with friends – various companies and…
Shipping container homes: 5 things to consider before owning one
Have you ever wanted to live in a cube? You might get your chance as container houses sweep the world, a response to increasingly congested cities, clogged apartments, and rising housing costs. Part innovation, part conservation, and perhaps, part desperation,…
Living small: study shows that having fewer things makes you happier
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 1975, the average size of a house in Canada was 1,050 square feet. Only 35 years later, in 2010, that number nearly doubled, with houses reaching an average size of 1,950 square feet. Similarly, in the…
10 best tiny homes in the USA (photos)
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Whether buying, building or renting, there are a lot of things to consider when opting for a tiny home. Even though space is limited, it’s very easy to get creative with your tiny house design. From floating…
Shipping container homes for sale and where to find them
Boxy, compact, metallic and affordable –shipping container homes have changed both the real estate game and the recycling market. These mini-homes have proven popular among millennials, young couples, and city-slickers looking for a taste of urban life without shelling out…
5 tiny houses on trailers that you can pull behind a truck
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Perhaps the biggest downfall of owning a house – any house, even a small one – is that you are essentially rooted to one place for as long as you choose to live there. It’s what makes…
Container homes: Pros and Cons of living in one
In an age of increasingly dense cities, growing traffic congestion, and skyrocketing condo prices, it seems harder and harder for young and upcoming homeowners to try and track down an affordable price. At the same time, it’s clear that as…
Container homes: How to get started
Interested in breaking free from the constraints of traditional home engineering and forging a new path? Tired of landlords, rent, and mortgages? Container homes may be the right choice for you. This revolutionary new trend in housing engineering combines the…
Tiny home quotes: 12 inspiring tiny house quotes
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The mantra of the rapidly-growing tiny house movement is simply, “Less is more.” People downsize, not necessarily because they can’t afford the “luxury” of a condo or a 3-storey house in the suburbs, – although the costs…